[Gllug] Re: RealPlayer cache

[Stephan Bourgeois]

>From: Sharon Kimble <sharon63 at lineone.net>
>Subject: [Gllug] RealPlayer 0.4.0.186
>
>I'm using this excellent device to listen to BBC 7 via the internet,
>which is coming as a .ram file. But, does anyone know where it stores
>its cache please as I'd like to be able to play my favourites again at a
>later date, if I could only find where they are.
>  
>
AFAIK RealPlayer itself will not cache the entire stream, it probably 
buffers 10sec. It will definitely not allow you to dump the stream to 
disk. This is to satisfy the copyright requirements of the 
broadcaster/webcaster.

However, if you have ALSA installed on your system, you can use the 
command line utility "record" that comes with the xawtv package to 
record any source you select from the audio mixer as a .wav file. I have 
done this with a few programs I wanted to archive. After that, I would 
re-compress the file in mp3 with lame. Such re-encoding is not 
recommended, but some BBC streams are high-quality, and re-encoding in 
high-bitrate mp3 works OK with speech.

I have also seen this on Freshmeat: Realrekord a tool to record 
RealAudio streams from RealPlayer. But I haven't tried it.
http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=realrekord

I hope this helps,
Stephan.

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